First Quality was founded in 1989 and, in nearly three decades, has grown to be a global privately held company with over 4,000 employees. Its corporate offices are located in Great Neck, New York, with manufacturing facilities and offices in Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Georgia, and Canada. First Quality is a diversified family of companies manufacturing consumer products ranging from Absorbent Hygiene (adult incontinence, feminine care, and baby care), Tissue (bath and towel), and Industrial (print and packaging materials), serving institutional and retail markets throughout the world. First Quality focuses on private label and branded product lines.
Our core business philosophy is built on a proud culture driven by safety and quality, respect, humility, integrity, customer focus, and teamwork. With leading edge manufacturing technologies and processes and visionary leadership, First Quality is positioned to continue significant growth in the coming years. We are looking for an experienced Process Engineering Manager for our state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities located in McElhattan, PA.
The purpose of this role is to manage a team of process engineers to provide technical leadership for high-speed manufacturing processes. Provides technical leadership and support to achieve required new products and product improvements, manufacturing cost, quality improvements and manufacturing equipment utilization, reliability, speeds, scrap rates, and efficiency goals.
Principal Accountabilities/ Responsibilities:
- Manages process engineering services and service levels across different assets within the plant based on business needs.
- Uses data to drive decision making to ensure teams are prioritizing high impact projects.
- Partners closely with product development, production, and plant engineering to prioritize and plan project work.
- Drives team improvements through a training plan focused on developing technical skills such as Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma Black Belt, and Data Analysis.
- Oversees engineering new, critical process descriptions and catalogues.
- Analyzes and makes recommendations for process improvement.
- Manages demand for process-oriented projects and services.
- Simulates new process designs.
- Provides technical leadership for continuous improvement projects to drive improvements in efficiency, scrap, speeds, quality, and safety.
- Ensures technical training to operators and maintenance as needed is being completed.
- Collaborates with PD for new products and material trials.
- Maintains, audits, and updates as needed “Good Run” documentation, insuring process conditions and measurements are defined, documented, and shared with operators.
- Drives standardization across all platforms to ensure operator aids are consistent.
- Leads development of technical training aids through standard work.
- Provides guidance/direction on development and implementation of process control tools such as good run documentation and process centerlines.
- Ensure critical process parameters are monitored and followed.
- Reviews product specifications and BOM’s for accuracy.
- Leads/directs development of standardization of process documentation.
- For new lines/equipment, leads the process definition on new production lines and major equipment and the startup, ensuring all process “Good Run” conditions and measurements are defined, documented, and shared with operators.
- Provides direction and guidance on implementation and management of good run documentation and process control tools on new lines/equipment.
- Has access to sensitive technology and operational improvement plans. Acts as responsible company contact in dealings with outside equipment and service providers.
- Works effectively with employees at all levels of the organization, and outside OEM’s, to constructively define and solve problems. Provides technical leadership to assigned teams and routinely uses team member’s input to solve routine and long- term problems.
- Completes tasks on time, within budget, and with expected results. Develops and effectively applies ongoing measurements to define problems and monitor progress for assigned lines.
- Uses SPC techniques to ensure problems are defined and fixed. Demonstrates product specification: BOM: performance understanding and acts as line training resource. Demonstrates urgency in resolving issues.
- Continually re-evaluates and adjusts plans based on changing business priorities to attain required results. Adapts & leads change and constructively supports ongoing improvement philosophy throughout the company and particularly on his/her assigned lines.
- Develops and implements aggressive plans with minimal disruption on assigned production lines.
- Instills sense of urgency with team and peers to maintain focused actions.
- Focuses personal efforts and those online team to achieve agreed upon results. Clarifies unclear requests to get support from other parts of the organization. Provides technical coaching to peers and line crews as needed.
- Follows necessary GMP, FDA, and ISO regulations/guidelines.
- Performs other duties as necessary when directed to do so.
Qualifications/ education and experience requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering – Mechanical, Chemical, Industrial, or equivalent.
- 7-10 years’ experience as an Engineering Manager within a high-speed continuous process manufacturing environment
- Continuous improvement, lean manufacturing methodologies experience is a plus.
- Has training in SPC, DOE, and Applied Problem-Solving techniques and has demonstrated successes applying these tools.
Skills/ competencies requirements:
- Proven ability to lead and develop high performance work teams.
- Exceptional analytical problem solving, equipment vendor management skills, and strong computer skills are needed to be successful.
- Has strong personal computer proficiency with MS Office, statistics, and design of experiments software. Has exposure to production results reporting systems, SCADA.
- Outstanding interpersonal and communication skills
- Proven track record of delivering results in a team-based work system.
- Proven track record of implementing new systems and procedures.
Excellent compensation and benefits, which are effective the first day of employment!
First Quality is committed to protecting information under the care of First Quality Enterprises commensurate with leading industry standards and applicable regulations. As such, First Quality provides at least annual training regarding data privacy and security to employees who, as a result of their role specifications, may come in to contact with sensitive data.
First Quality is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identification, or protected Veteran status.
